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An End to the Grievance-Based Counterterrorism
Approach

Jamal al-Harith didn't look very aggrieved in the
moments before beginning his suicide mission.

When a British
jihadi named Jamal al-Harith became an Islamic State (ISIS) suicide
bomber last month, he killed not only Iraqi soldiers but also the naïve
theory that nations can effectively fight terrorism by listening to the
complaints of terrorists and then making the appropriate conciliatory
adjustments.

Harith
(born Ronald Fiddler) was granted every conceivable concession, but none of them stopped
him from becoming the latest smiling suicide bomber.

What Melvin
E. Lee calls the "grievance-based
approach" to counterterrorism holds that by addressing the stated
grievances of terrorists, their motivations for committing acts of
violence can be stopped and further acts preempted. It is a
surprisingly popular idea among both academics and politicians. But
evidence in the real world suggests that it is little more than a
fantasy of the peace studies and conflict resolution crowd.

The grievance-based approach to
counter-terrorism is a fantasy of the peace studies & conflict
resolution crowd.

The
grievance-based approach can be applied both on a structural (group)
level and on an individual level. On the group level, for decades it
was the preferred approach taken by the government of Sri Lanka with
the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Successive Sri Lankan
governments negotiated continuously with the Tamil Tigers since the
1980s, and whenever there was an impasse, the Tigers struck. It was not
until 2009 when president Mahinda Rajapaksa ended negotiations and with
his brother Gotabaya, who ran the military, declared war on the LTTE that peace
came back to the island state.

Israel was
locked into a decades-long grievance-based approach in its struggle
with the Palestinian people. The memories of Oslo make it unlikely that
major concessions are forthcoming. However, the Jewish state is under
tremendous pressure from the UN, the EU and for the past eight years,
the US, to make yet more concessions.

On the
individual level, the grievance-based approach is at the heart of the
erroneous explanation that poverty and lack of education are the
"root causes" of terrorism, despite the plethora of engineers
and medical doctors who have joined the global jihad. It was also
favored by the Obama administration. In 2015 State Department
spokesperson (and current Fox News analyst) Marie Harf suggested a grievance-based approach
when she opined that a jobs program might effectively keep unemployed
Muslim men from becoming jihadists. Harf explained that we need
"to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups,
whether it's lack of opportunity for jobs."

Poverty and lack of education are not
the 'root causes' of Islamist terrorism.

But Harith
didn't need a job. In fact, he was a millionaire. He was an original
al-Qaida member who joined when the fledgling group was still in the
Sudan and then moved to Afghanistan when Osama bin Laden relocated his
operations there. Harith was captured in Afghanistan in March 2002 by
US troops and sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Since he was a
British citizen, his government lobbied for his repatriation. When the
Bush administration complied in 2004, Harith was sent back to Britain
and granted his freedom. He faced no charges in spite of the
circumstances of his case.

But that
wasn't enough. Harith sued the British government and won a
million-pound settlement. Not only were his grievances thoroughly
redressed, but he was compensated with a fortune.

If the
theory upon which the grievance-based approach is based were correct,
Harith's new fortune and freedom would have ended his jihad. But it
didn't. And in another apparent case of insufficient government
surveillance of a known terrorist threat, Harith fled to Turkey in 2014 and then to
Syria to join ISIS under the name Abu Zakariya al-Britani. Becoming a
millionaire did not temper his taste for jihad and his thirst for
martyrdom.

The idea
that a job or money could stop Harith from rejoining the global jihad
could only be entertained by someone who does not understand his reason
for becoming an al-Qaida member to begin with.

Negotiating
with terrorists is rarely a good idea, but nations that reach out to
Islamist terrorists, as Melvin Lee explains, "misunderstand the
enemy and its nature."

Harith
gleefully embraced his death, convinced of the rewards he would reap
upon completion of his attack. This element of the jihadi mindset has
eluded us since 1983 when witnesses were baffled by the smiling suicide attacker who drove his
explosive-laden truck into the US Marine barracks in Beirut.

Until we fight the ideology that
attracts men like Harith, addressing specific grievances is futile.

The
grievance-based approach to terrorism asks what else might have been
done for Harith or given to Harith to dissuade him from his attack. It
looks at his life and asks how society might have made it better, so
that he would never have contemplated jihad against the West.

Until we
acknowledge the ideology that attracts men like Ronald Fiddler, and
then fight that ideology, addressing specific grievances of specific
individuals or groups is futile. Or as Melvin Lee put it,
"Acquiescing to political grievances will not alter the
fundamental incompatibility between Lockean precepts of tolerance and
current interpretations of Islam: Only Islam's fundamental reform will
resolve the conflict."

Until then
the suicide bombers will continue. Smiling like Harith.

A.J. Caschetta is a Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the
Middle East Forum and a senior lecturer at the Rochester Institute of
Technology.

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The gravity of the existential threat we face from Islamic Jihad is truly of epic proportions. It is essentially a battle pitting free-civilized man against a totalitarian barbarian. What is at stake is the struggle for our very soul - namely who we are and what we represent. The lives that were sacrificed for individual rights and freedoms that we've come to cherish are being chiseled away from right under our noses by the stealth jihadists. And many of us are in denial and totally clueless.

The left's appeasement and pandering to evil is nothing new. What makes their utopian delusions so infuriating and unpardonable is that it is not only they who will have to pay the consequences, and deservedly, so, they are thwarting and undermining our best efforts at resistance and are thus dragging us down in the process as well.